Yogu "Fullkeloid Dolls"

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I want to immerse myself forever in this beautiful amusement park with sad but beautiful strangers, things, and monsters!!

--Sion Sono (film director)

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Growing up while being brutally abused by her parents, she went to a psychiatrist in junior high school and was diagnosed with "schizophrenia" (now called "schizophrenia"). Intrigued, Yogu began making dolls on his own.

Her terrific works have deeply pierced the hearts of many people and given them courage.

This book, which is her long-awaited first work collection, includes two frontispieces that expand to four times the width, and summarizes Yogu's 20-year life as an artist!

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What is it that makes these strange hands?

Those hands, like crawling spiders, have their own will.

Some spread their fingers in search of prey, while others writhe and writhe in their own venom.

Some spread their fingers to strangle an invisible neck, some point into the void like they are pointing at a traitor.

A hand-shaped dragon, its descendant.

The owner of the hand often appears before us bruised and sickly.

Protruding clavicle and ribs.

Eyes sometimes sunken or gouged out.

Deep scars running down his face and chest.

The muscles of the whole body were twitched with tension, and the hair even stood on end with passion.

His pale face is often adorned with clown-like kumadori, and he is weeping tears of blood.

The artist binds the dolls he gave birth to with iron chains, seals them in a velvet box, cuts off their limbs, and withers them.

Like a doll afraid to crawl out of it and attack.

Is this really a doll?

No, isn't that the figure of the curse itself, in the form of a doll?

No wonder there are people who think so.

The artist, Yogu, cuts his own arm with a carving knife and applies the blood that flows from the cut to the back of the doll.

She tortures the dolls, sometimes smashing them, and presents only those that have survived as her works.

A doll for Yogu is a sacrifice that has undergone the baptism of such a curse.

--Hiroyuki Higuchi/Commentary

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★ Publication Commemorative Exhibition August 8 (Tue) - 20 (Sun), 2017

At the Vanilla Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo [→details]

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★ Yogu

Born January 5, 1982 in Toki City, Gifu Prefecture. She has a congenital genetic disease (funnel chest, full-body Mongolian spots, hallucinatory hallucinatory disorder), and she grows up with terrible physical, sexual and psychological abuse from her parents on a daily basis since childhood. From April 1994, at her father's discretion, she entered a mission-oriented private junior high school in Aichi Prefecture. From this time on, she became aware of her mental limits, and she went to a psychiatrist to be diagnosed with "schizophrenia" (now called "schizophrenia"), and started outpatient treatment.

After entering a private mission high school, she became interested in ball-jointed dolls, and started making dolls on her own. In March 2000, after graduating from high school, she devoted herself to making dolls in her room while working part-time. She became a doujin of a class hosted by Mr. Kagura, a doll artist living in Nagoya, and started exhibiting her works in group exhibitions. In 2001, she received a request from Eiji Otsuka, the original author of the manga, and produced a doll for the visual of his CD "Lolita no Ondo". At the end of 2002, the inaugural issue of "Quarterly S" featured an introduction to his work and a long interview, which created a sensation. In response to this, in 2003, he started serializing "Ningyo Kuyo" from the second issue of "Quarterly S". In April of the same year, he held his first solo exhibition at Mukashi Ningyo Aoyama/K1 Door in Kyoto.

In the early summer of the same year, he ran away from his parents' house because he felt that his life was in danger because the abuse from his parents did not subside even after he became an adult. He moves to Tokyo. Even after escaping from his parents, he has been repeatedly in and out of the hospital due to a long-term battle with severe mental illness and a chain of various illnesses (currently still undergoing outpatient treatment).

In the summer of 2010, serialization of "Kashimi to Yushimi" began in "TH" No. 43. In the summer of 2017, he published his first collection of works, and held his first solo exhibition in 13 years at the Vanilla Gallery in Tokyo.

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A5 size, 68 pages, 2,750yen (consumption tax not included)